Starry Nights at CPI: Our recital series

You are invited to join us at one of the concerts on our newly minted Starry Nights at CPI Recital Series! Numerous concerts will take place within the next three weeks.
 
Admission is free but donations are appreciated! 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Starry Nights III Faculty Recital: Wednesday, June 22nd at 7:00PM

LSU School of Music Recital Hall 
Featuring: MET Stars Paul Groves (tenor) and Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano), David Cerutti (viola, MET orchestra), and Adam Liu (principal cello, Pittsburh Symphony),  Simón Gollo (violin, CSI Director, Reveron Piano Trio), Martha Guth (soprano, Sparks and Wiry Cries, SongFest), Christopher Turbessi, Elena Lacheva and Ana Maria Otamendi (piano)
 
Schubert and Mahler Lieder, Dohnanyi Serenade for string trio, songs by Earl Kim, Tom Cipullo, and more!

 

Final Participant Recital I: Thursday, June 23rd at 3:00PM

 LSU School of Music Recital Hall 
Come and discover the stars of the future! You’ll be seeing them first here before they take on the world in a varied program of both instrumental and vocal music by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Poulenc, Modesta Bor, Barber and Rachel DeVore Fogarty. 

 

Starry Nights IV Featured Faculty Recital: Thursday, June 23, 7:00PM

 LSU School of Music Recital Hall 
 
World-renowned pianist Martin Katz and opera star Jesse Blumberg 
 L’Horizon Chimérique by Fauré, Tel Jour Tel Nuit by Poulenc, songs by Hugo Wolf, Florence Price, Ivor Gurney,  and WORLD PREMIERES by Whitney E. George and Tom Cipullo!

 

Final Participant Recital II: Friday, June 24th at 7:00PM

LSU School of Music Recital Hall 
Last chance to see the program participants in performance! You’ll be seeing them first here before they take on the world! Featuring both instrumental and vocal music by Beethoven, Schumann, Wolf, Vaughan Williams, Tom Cipullo, B. E. Boykin and William Bolcom! 
 

PAST EVENTS:

Starry Nights I Faculty Recital Friday, June 10th at 7:30 PM

First United Methodist Church. 930 North Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 

Come hear Korliss Uecker (MET Star) and Howard Watkins (MET Assistant Conductor), as well as Amy Petrongelli (Vocal Academy Director) with Kathy Kelly (world-renowned collaborative pianist). Also with us: Sandra Moon (Associate Professor at LSU) with Elvia Puccinelli (UNT); Ana Maria Otamendi/Elena Lacheva (CPI Directors)
Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky, as well as songs by Robert and Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Julianna Hall, Tom Cipullo, and more!

 

Participant Recital I: Saturday, June 11th at 7:00PM

LSU School of Music Recital Hall 
Join us for a short concert featuring some of our wonderful participants!

 

Starry Nights II Faculty & Participant Recital: Saturday, June 18, 7:00PM

LSU School of Music Recital Hall 
Darrel Hale (UNT Professor of Bassoon) with Ana Maria Otamendi (LSU); Dennis Parker (LSU Professor of Cello)/Espen Lilleslåtten (LSU Professor of Violin); Jean-Bernard Cerin (Assistant Professor of Voice at Lincoln University)/Pei-Hsuan Lin
 
Works by Ravel, William Winstead, Debussy, Beethoven and more!